The request by more than 160 CAOs was channelled through the Association of Local Government Administrative Officers of Uganda ALGAOU to the Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Local Government.
Read more ...Government policy requires local governments to use their own personnel and equipment to maintain District, Urban and Community Access Roads in their respective areas using locally generated revenue and funding from Uganda Road Fund.
Read more ...The health workers attached at Nakasongola Health Center IV where arrested on Thursday by the police and officers from the State House Health Monitoring Unit. They were found in possession of Hepatitis B Vaccines in Luweero town council which they were planning to sell to private clinics.
Read more ...Sadat Kazibwe, the Manager of Kanana Associates Limited in Luweero town says that the idea of obtaining a license from UMRA is still strange since they already have a trading license issued by Luweero Town Council and another from the Magistrates Court which allows them to operate.
Read more ...Godfrey Mugisha the LC 3 Chairperson of Kinyogogga sub county says that in December, Save the Children handed over the schools to Nakaseke district after their funding ended. Mugisha says that although schools resumed operations this term, there are facing crisis that of teachers not paid salaries and the district is yet to budget for them.
Read more ...Ronald Kamya, a member of Wesige Mukama Bamugolodde Health Scheme, says the scheme is affordable compared to general insurance services. Kamya says he pays Shillings 72,000 for all his family members and co-payment of Shillings 30,000 whenever any of them falls sick.
Read more ...Patrick Mwesigwa, the Chairperson Luweero District Health Committee, says they want the Ministry to roll out mass vaccination against Hepatitis B to protect residents from contracting the disease.
Read more ...The fund channeled through the Parish Community Associations PCAs model, will see each parish given 30 million Shillings to boost already existing projects and revolves. The funds revolve within the parish on an annual basis. Up to eight billion Shillings has been allocated to the scheme in its first phase.
Read more ...In the last financial year, Bombo town council allocated 50 million shillings to procure land for dumping garbage. However, up to date, there is no dumping site, putting lives of residents at risk of contracting cholera and other diseases associated with poor disposal of garbage. Heaps of uncollected garbage is a common sight in the town.
Read more ...Last year, the National Forestry Authority-NFA ordered the squatters to vacate the forest land to pave way for tree planting and restoration of the forest in vain
Read more ...Moses Bukenya, a farmer in Wobulenzi town council questions why the district is still sourcing coffee seedlings from suppliers in Wakiso district yet they can produce enough. He says blocking UCDA from buying more than two million coffee seedlings will plunge them into poverty.
Read more ...Muwonges trouble stems from the recovery of body parts from the shrine of Armstrong Nsubuga, a witchdoctor in Kyakatula-Butikwa village in Kikyusa Sub County in Luweero district.
Read more ...The accident occurred at around 10 a.m. when a Link Bus registration number UBA 332B swerved off the road, overturned and slipped into the trench at Namayonjo village in Wabinyonyi Sub County along Kampala-Gulu highway. The deceased and injured are not yet identified.
Read more ...Savannah Regional Police Spokesperson Paul Kangave says that the body and other remains were recovered during a search conducted following a complaint from a neighbor, whose 26-year-old relative had gone missing.
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